Now we can install LodgeIt. But first we need to check out LodgeIt from the
mercurial repository. To do that you create a new folder lodgeit-dev in your
projects directory and change into it. There we initialize the virtual
environment and check out LodgeIt (main branch):

hg clone http://dev.pocoo.org/hg/lodgeit-main lodgeit

Right before we can initialize the virtual environment we need to install some
development packages to compile the python imaging library.

Now it's possible to install the virtual environment. This is done with a simple
Python command:

# assumed that you are located in lodgeit-dev/lodgeit
python scripts/make-bootstrap.py > ../bootstrap.py
cd ..
# make sure that the virtualenv is not activated. If yes, execute `deactivate`
python bootstrap.py .

You are ready to run now.

Database and other things

We are now ready to enter the virtual environment (assumed you are located in
lodgeit-dev/lodgeit):

. ../bin/activate

LodgeIt initializes it's database per default on /tmp/lodgeit.db, you can change
that path in the manage.py by modifiing dburi.